Monday Morning Rewatch --
Confirmed Dead
More question and notes from episode 4.2, Confirmed Dead.
1. Where do you think Dan's egg-cooking lady friend thinks he is now? He seems to be the only one of the Freighter Four (FF) with a close, personal friend. Will any of them missed if they don't return?
2. Why don't all the FF think they need to have kevlar vests on? If I was heading to the island after Naomi's signal, I would have had my vest on and my gas mask handy. And do you think Dan really knows how to use that gun?
3. Sawyer's finally learned some tracking skills. He realizes Locke is heading in the wrong direction.
4. Did Ben shoot Locke in the missing kidney to test Locke and the Island or is he just getting sloppy? And why is Ben trying to talk Sawyer into staying on the Island? Will anyone do in this pinch?
5. What do you think Mrs. Gardner had been hearing or seeing in her Inglewood home to make her call Miles in the first place?
6. What does Charlotte know about The Dharma Initiative and how does she know it? I want to think she's a DI offspring, but Ben's details of her life, mom and dad, birthplace, etc. make me much less confident in that hope. BTW, her dad's name is David Lewis. The name David has been used repeatedly on the show.
7. Why didn't Charlotte try to sell the "we're here for Desmond" story to Locke's group?
8. One of my favorite scenes in the episode is when Jack, Kate, Sayid and Juliet first see the helicopter. The hope on their faces is both heart-warming and heart-breaking given our Flash Forward info.
9. So if Ben is the FF's objective why send anyone other than Naomi? How many other objectives do they have? And why does Abaddon trust the FF to be able to leave the Island after each has fulfilled their specific purpose? Won't they talk? Especially about the existence of 815 survivors? Frank at least seems to think his only purpose on the Island is to run a ferry service from it to the freighter.
10. Can Smokey/Jacob/the Island make Christian Shephard and Yemi appear because they're "just meat?" If so, they better get Naomi off the Island quickly before her body disappears and shows up in Jacob's cabin.
11. Does Ben know what the monster is, but he's still unwilling to tell Locke? To tell Charlotte?
Monday, February 11, 2008
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2 comments:
Good observations, Memphish:
And do you think Dan really knows how to use that gun?
I don't think any of them do! They all seem Rambo wannabees, especially when Miles pulled the gun on Jack on the rocks. LOL And re Dan: Who else drops onto an island with some sort of agenda wearing a tie? LOL
Did Ben shoot Locke in the missing kidney to test Locke and the Island or is he just getting sloppy?
I think that kidney storyline with Locke and Cooper was leading to this moment in the story. Fate or coincidence? Now the question is: I'm assuming Ben did know about the missing kidney since he knows so much about everyone, so did he shoot Locke there on purpose, knowing he'll survive?
What does Charlotte know about The Dharma Initiative and how does she know it?
Maybe she came across something during her studies in anthropology and it peaked her interest. There must have been something regarding the DeGroots that she saw and it intrigued her, and she became a Dharma groupie.
So many points I don't know where to start. As for vests, maybe only certain of the F4s were supposed to be there for combat reasons. Bad thinking on the planners part (or else they just didn't care about the "expendables"--easy to believe in this story!), since they must have known that there were hostiles of a sort on the island. Apparently Miles gave Charlotte his vest since she couldn't find hers -- I missed that when I watched it.
Maybe if she didn't see Dez in the crowd, Charlotte took the route that would normally appeal to the most castaways, i.e., their rescue.
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